Selections from English literature, by E. Lee, Book 4Elizabeth Lee 1913 |
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Page 195
... virtue the elder of these was declared the son and successor of Hadrian , on condition , however , that he himself should immediately adopt the younger . The two Antonines ( for it is of them that we are now speaking ) governed the ...
... virtue the elder of these was declared the son and successor of Hadrian , on condition , however , that he himself should immediately adopt the younger . The two Antonines ( for it is of them that we are now speaking ) governed the ...
Page 196
... virtue as the only good , vice as the only evil , all things external as things indifferent . His Meditations , com- posed in the tumult of a camp , are still extant ; and he even condescended to give lessons on philosophy , in a more ...
... virtue as the only good , vice as the only evil , all things external as things indifferent . His Meditations , com- posed in the tumult of a camp , are still extant ; and he even condescended to give lessons on philosophy , in a more ...
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... virtue ; the most exalted perfection and the meanest degeneracy of our own species . The golden age of Trajan and the Antonines had been preceded by an age of iron . It is almost superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of ...
... virtue ; the most exalted perfection and the meanest degeneracy of our own species . The golden age of Trajan and the Antonines had been preceded by an age of iron . It is almost superfluous to enumerate the unworthy successors of ...
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GEOFFREY CHAUCER 13401400 | 1 |
WILLIAM CAXTON 1422 ?1491 | 10 |
STEPHEN HAWES d 1523 | 17 |
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